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A book inspired Fiyero for commissioner.

I thought exploring his like studious, intelligent, Chieftain of the Arjikis, capable side would be fun but it just makes the scarecrow part so much sadder I think😭😭😭

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CHAPPELL ROAN. NME Magazine.

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your bed is probably as happy to see you as you are to see it. ‘here comes the warmth slab’ it thinks

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Horse figure of the day: Breyer #711205 Merlin

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hopping on the trend. She has an ebike I know it

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"got your nose"

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not gonna lie, when i saw that a cybertruck had exploded i legit didn't realize it was some sort of premeditated thing, i just thought it was just another extreme flaw in it's design. i had no idea fireworks were involved, i honest to god thought it just did that on its own

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now that jimmy carter is dead can i just say what an absolute power move it was for him to run for governor of georgia with segregation as his platform, only to do a complete 180 once in office. insane

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I was like, "I'm not gonna change a word of this script. This is a perfect script. I'm not gonna ruin this movie with my thoughts." But then, on every camera take, Jon our wonderful director was like, "Now do one just for fun. Now do one just you. Like, just something that you would say, off the cuff and ad-lib." And I was like, "Okay, if you want." And then, this man pulled a fast one on me. He used every single ad-lib.

Bowen Yang as Pfannee — WICKED (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

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“Did they ever kiss” No, but they held hands and that’s everything

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[attempting to flirt] if i was stuck in a timeloop id desperately explain my situation to you every single reset

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Guess who got kicked off the New York Times bestseller list even though Iron Widow, from the same publisher, hit the same list 40+ times from 2021-2022 with no issue : )

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Love Never Dies – Japan, 2025 Cast

Christine – Ayaka Hirahara (平原 綾香), Maya Kiho (真彩 希帆), Rena Sasamoto (笹本 玲奈)

Meg Giry – Madoka Hoshikaze (星風 まどか)

Full Cast

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About ten, fifteen years ago I wrote a story about a guy living in a Capitalist dystopia. His walls, furniture, and tableware are all covered in smart displays. Basically animated wallpaper. It's sold as being able to turn your room or objects into anything - A nice forest view, outer space, a fantasy realm... but the companies that run this stuff keep sneaking ads in.

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

And google's going around freaking out about ad-blockers.

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A New Hope

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CYNTHIA ERIVO as ELPHABA THROPP WICKED (2024) dir. JON M. CHU

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Reminder that caregivers of children are, by definition, supposed to provide shelter, food, and clothing. They did not do you a huge favor by providing this. It was the bare minimum of the job description that they voluntarily signed up for. You are not indebted to your caregivers for giving you the very basics.